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The Committee on the Environment (COTE®) is an AIA Knowledge Community working for architects, allied professionals, and the public to achieve climate action and climate justice through design. We believe that design excellence is the foundation of a healthy, sustainable, and equitable future. Our work promotes design strategies that empower all AIA members to realize the best social and environmental outcomes with the clients and the communities they serve.

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Starting a local COTE or sustainability group and need some guidance? Check out the AIA COTE Network Resources here.

A big thank you to our 2024 sponsors: 
Founding sponsors: Building Green
Premier sponsors: Sherwin-Williams
Sustaining sponsors: GAF Roofing, Milliken, Andersen Windows,
BlueScope Buildings
Green sponsors: EPIC Metals
Allied sponsors: TLC Engineering, Sierra Pacific Windows

Nov 14 webinar about forests, climate change, and embodied carbon in wood products

  • 1.  Nov 14 webinar about forests, climate change, and embodied carbon in wood products

    Posted 11-08-2019 01:05 PM

    November 14, 2019 from noon to 1 PM Pacific Time

     

    TO REGISTER: https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7010Z000001wQLBQA2

     

     

    This program explains why increased forest protection and improved stewardship are key to addressing the climate crisis and reducing the embodied carbon of wood products - and how the green building movement can help.

     

    Topics include:

     

    • Forests' role in combatting climate change
    • Is increased wood use and mass timber construction beneficial or detrimental?
    • Forest carbon: what it is, how it works and why it determines the real carbon footprint of wood products
    • Climate-friendlier forestry and practical wood procurement strategies to promote it
    • Illegally logged and traded wood products: the climate connection + a new and innovative approach to avoiding illegal wood in building construction

     

    Jason Grant, jason@jasongrantconsulting.com



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